President Donald Trump’s strong recent actions against Venezuela and Cuba is rekindling hope for freedom from those two dictatorships, according to exiled Nicaraguan Ambassador Arturo McFields.

“The U.S. is back and reassuming its leadership in Latin America,” McFields, an exiled journalist, former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States, wrote Sunday in an op-ed for The Hill. “This time, it will not hand power over to China, Iran, or any other Eastern Hemisphere power.

“Leadership through strength is fundamental. Like President Ronald Reagan, Trump is not willing to accept blackmail or pressure from any banana republic over key areas such trade, drug trafficking or migration. This administration is not afraid of conflict or controversy — on the contrary, it sees these as a necessary part of the path to change.”

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